{"id":557,"date":"2020-08-26T16:39:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T16:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sherryumlah.com\/home\/?page_id=557"},"modified":"2020-10-09T16:49:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T16:49:49","slug":"setting-up-a-new-mac-for-ror-development","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sherryumlah.com\/home\/setting-up-a-new-mac-for-ror-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting Up a New Mac for RoR Development"},"content":{"rendered":"

Install Homebrew<\/h2>\n

Homebrew<\/a> is a package manager for MacOS.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Open the Mac terminal and enter this at the command prompt:
    \n> \/bin\/bash -c “$(curl -fsSL https:\/\/raw.githubusercontent.com\/Homebrew\/install\/master\/install.sh)”<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. Run > brew update<\/em> to make sure it’s the most recent version of Homebrew<\/li>\n
  3. Run > brew doctor<\/em> to make sure your system is ready to brew<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Setting up\u00a0a default IDE (VS Code) for the Mac Terminal<\/h2>\n
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    1. Download VS Code<\/a>\u00a0and install it.<\/li>\n
    2. Within the Mac terminal, navigate to \/Users\/yourUserName and at the command prompt enter > touch\u00a0.bash_profile<\/strong> to create a .bash_profile file<\/li>\n
    3. Open the .bash_profile file by entering > open bash_profile<\/li>\n
    4. Add the following line to your .bash_profile file and save it:\u00a0 export EDITOR=”code -w”<\/em><\/li>\n
    5. Open VS Code and press Command + shift + p<\/strong> to open the command palette. Within the command palette type\u00a0type\u00a0code<\/em>\u00a0and click\u00a0Shell Command: Install ‘code’ command in PATH<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
    6. Within the terminal, at the command prompt enter this to refresh and use the latest version of your bash_profile file:
      \n> source .bash_profile<\/em><\/li>\n
    7. Now you can edit any file by prefacing it with > code.\u00a0 <\/em>Example: > code yourFilename\u00a0 OR\u00a0 > code . <\/em>(to open the current directory)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Use Homebrew to Install Ruby<\/h2>\n
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      1. At the Mac terminal command prompt, enter:
        \n> brew install ruby
        \nThis will install ruby.\u00a0 You may see a message such as:
        \nBy default, binaries installed by gem will be placed into:\u00a0 \/usr\/local\/lib\/ruby\/gems\/2.7.0\/bin<\/em><\/li>\n
      2. Opent your bash_profile file in VS Code to edit it:
        \n> code ~\/.bash_profile<\/em><\/li>\n
      3. Update the ~\/.bash_profile file to have this line appear first in the file and then save it:\n
        export PATH=\/usr\/local\/opt\/ruby\/bin:$PATH
        \n<\/em><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
      4. Refresh the ~\/.bash_profile file by entering:
        \n> source ~\/.bash_profile<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Install\u00a0Rails<\/h2>\n
          \n
        1. At the Mac terminal prompt enter:
          \n>\u00a0gem install Rails<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Installing Node and Yarn<\/h2>\n

          You might need Node.js and Yarn installed to manage your application’s JavaScript.\u00a0 (npm — node package manager — will be installed with Node). At the Mac terminal prompt, run:
          \n>\u00a0brew install<\/span> node<\/em><\/p>\n

          Verify the installation worked by running a check on the version of Node installed:
          \n> node –version<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

          Install Yarn by running:<\/p>\n

          > brew install yarn<\/em><\/p>\n

          Verify the installation worked by running a check on the version of\u00a0Yarn installed:
          \n>\u00a0yarn -v<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

           <\/p>\n

          Jazz Up the ZSH Terminal<\/h2>\n

          https:\/\/www.freecodecamp.org\/news\/jazz-up-your-zsh-terminal-in-seven-steps-a-visual-guide-e81a8fd59a38\/<\/p>\n

           <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Install Homebrew Homebrew is a package manager for MacOS. Open the Mac terminal and enter this at the command prompt: > \/bin\/bash -c “$(curl -fsSL https:\/\/raw.githubusercontent.com\/Homebrew\/install\/master\/install.sh)” Run > brew update to make sure it’s the most recent version of Homebrew Run > brew doctor to make sure your system is ready to brew Setting up\u00a0a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-557","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sherryumlah.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sherryumlah.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sherryumlah.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sherryumlah.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sherryumlah.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sherryumlah.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"http:\/\/sherryumlah.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/557\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sherryumlah.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}